ἀγάπη agápē

Meaning

love, i.e. affection or benevolence; specially (plural) a love-feast

In the King James Version: (feast of) charity(-ably), dear, love

Derivation: from G25 (ἀγαπάω);

Where it is used

• Matthew 24:12 Because of the multiplication of wickedness, the love of most will grow cold.
• Luke 11:42 Woe to you Pharisees! For you pay tithes of mint, rue, and every herb, but you disregard justice and the love of God. You should have practiced the latter without neglecting the former.
• John 5:42 but I know you, that you do not have the love of God within you.
• John 13:35 By this everyone will know that you are My disciples, if you love one another.”
• John 15:9 As the Father has loved Me, so have I loved you. Remain in My love.
• John 15:10 If you keep My commandments, you will remain in My love, just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and remain in His love.
• John 15:13 Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.
• John 17:26 And I have made Your name known to them and will continue to make it known, so that the love You have for Me may be in them, and I in them.”
• Romans 5:5 And hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out His love into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, whom He has given us.
• Romans 5:8 But God proves His love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
• Romans 8:35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or distress or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword?
• Romans 8:39 neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
• Romans 12:9 Love must be sincere. Detest what is evil; cling to what is good.
• Romans 13:10 Love does no wrong to its neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.
• Romans 14:15 If your brother is distressed by what you eat, you are no longer acting in love. Do not by your eating destroy your brother, for whom Christ died.
• Romans 15:30 Now I urge you, brothers, by our Lord Jesus Christ and by the love of the Spirit, to join me in my struggle by praying to God for me.
• 1 Corinthians 4:21 Which do you prefer? Shall I come to you with a rod, or in love and with a gentle spirit?
• 1 Corinthians 8:1 Now about food sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.
• 1 Corinthians 13:1 If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a ringing gong or a clanging cymbal.
• 1 Corinthians 13:2 If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have absolute faith so as to move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
• 1 Corinthians 13:3 If I give all I possess to the poor and exult in the surrender of my body, but have not love, I gain nothing.
• 1 Corinthians 13:4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.
• 1 Corinthians 13:8 Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be restrained; where there is knowledge, it will be dismissed.
• 1 Corinthians 13:13 And now these three remain: faith, hope, and love; but the greatest of these is love.
• 1 Corinthians 14:1 Earnestly pursue love and eagerly desire spiritual gifts, especially the gift of prophecy.
• 1 Corinthians 16:14 Do everything in love.
• 1 Corinthians 16:24 My love be with all of you in Christ Jesus. Amen.
• 2 Corinthians 2:4 For through many tears I wrote you out of great distress and anguish of heart, not to grieve you but to let you know how much I love you.
• 2 Corinthians 2:8 Therefore I urge you to reaffirm your love for him.
• 2 Corinthians 5:14 For Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced that One died for all, therefore all died.
• 2 Corinthians 6:6 in purity, knowledge, patience, and kindness; in the Holy Spirit and in sincere love;
• 2 Corinthians 8:7 But just as you excel in everything—in faith, in speech, in knowledge, in complete earnestness, and in the love we inspired in you—see that you also excel in this grace of giving.
• 2 Corinthians 8:8 I am not giving a command, but I am testing the sincerity of your love through the earnestness of others.
• 2 Corinthians 8:24 In full view of the churches, then, show these men the proof of your love and the reason for our boasting about you.
• 2 Corinthians 13:11 Finally, brothers, rejoice! Aim for perfect harmony, encourage one another, be of one mind, live in peace. And the God of love and peace will be with you.
• 2 Corinthians 13:13 All the saints send you greetings.
• Galatians 5:6 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision has any value. What matters is faith expressing itself through love.
• Galatians 5:13 For you, brothers, were called to freedom; but do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh. Rather, serve one another in love.
• Galatians 5:22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
• Ephesians 1:4 For He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world to be holy and blameless in His presence. In love
• Ephesians 1:15 For this reason, ever since I heard about your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all the saints,
• Ephesians 2:4 But because of His great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy,
• Ephesians 3:17 so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. Then you, being rooted and grounded in love,
• Ephesians 3:19 of the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.
• Ephesians 4:2 with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love,
• Ephesians 4:15 Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will in all things grow up into Christ Himself, who is the head.
• Ephesians 4:16 From Him the whole body, fitted and held together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in love through the work of each individual part.
• Ephesians 5:2 and walk in love, just as Christ loved us and gave Himself up for us as a fragrant sacrificial offering to God.
• Ephesians 6:23 Peace to the brothers and love with faith from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
• Philippians 1:9 And this is my prayer: that your love may abound more and more in knowledge and depth of insight,
• Philippians 1:16 The latter do so in love, knowing that I am appointed for the defense of the gospel.
• Philippians 2:1 Therefore if you have any encouragement in Christ, if any comfort from His love, if any fellowship with the Spirit, if any affection and compassion,
• Philippians 2:2 then make my joy complete by being like-minded, having the same love, being united in spirit and purpose.
• Colossians 1:4 because we have heard about your faith in Christ Jesus and your love for all the saints—
• Colossians 1:8 and who also informed us of your love in the Spirit.
• Colossians 1:13 He has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of His beloved Son,
• Colossians 2:2 that they may be encouraged in heart, knit together in love, and filled with the full riches of complete understanding, so that they may know the mystery of God, namely Christ,
• Colossians 3:14 And over all these virtues put on love, which is the bond of perfect unity.
• 1 Thessalonians 1:3 and continually recalling before our God and Father your work of faith, your labor of love, and your enduring hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.
• 1 Thessalonians 3:6 But just now, Timothy has returned from his visit with the good news about your faith, your love, and the fond memories you have preserved, longing to see us just as we long to see you.